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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 18, 2009 - 07:21pm PT
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We just guessed that those folks were tired & headed to
favorite napping spots.
Maybe they were? Hey, they're the mattress people. I dunno.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Sep 18, 2009 - 08:01pm PT
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Crashpads started out as squares of carpet, mostly for cleaning off the shoes prior to making a move on the rock.
Gradually, folks stopped bouldering due to ankle injury.
Someone got the bright idea to add foam padding to the carpet, and the crashpad was invented.
Hope this helps
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mucci
Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
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Sep 18, 2009 - 08:06pm PT
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They burn real good
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 18, 2009 - 08:43pm PT
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munge asks a good question. Why not earlier? All I can guess is that bouldering was seen as just practice for real climbs back in the day.
I remember a friend that only bouldered back in the day. We called him crazy, as a nick name, we still call him crazy, but I now see where he was coming from.
Taped up couch cushions beat carpet. Pads beat taped up couch cushions, and so the sport goes.
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
A survey where 68% preferred this Fuca over others
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Sep 18, 2009 - 09:15pm PT
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Beware! When you wear a crashpad on your back you are unwittingly inviting impromptu bondage sex.
When they boulder, sport climbers and other prancers have historically been known for intentionally giving a poor spot so they can bugger their defenseless partners, so it was only a matter of time before they and their partners got fed up with the constant carpet burns.
Crashpads became popular because they allow such boulderers to push their partners over, or tortoise™ them, even on the hike in 'n out.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Sep 18, 2009 - 09:36pm PT
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Along the lines of but not an answer to the original question, the term "spotting" has interesting origins:
In 1930, a new gymnastics coach at the University of Illinois, Hartley Price, painted 4' diameter white circles on the gymnasium walls, calling them "spots". Gymnasts seeing the "spots" were supposed to think safety and look for those who could assist them through one element or another. Such assistance became known as "spotting".
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Sep 18, 2009 - 09:43pm PT
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Thanks tons John. Solid.
As far as my original haunt, Indian Rock, we began to use vendors' carpet samples and similar stuff down in the pit back in the late sixties. They were just to so you could get your shoes really clean to do all the nasty micro-edging on the rhyolite.
Peter Haan
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 18, 2009 - 10:02pm PT
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Tortoise! WooHoo!!!
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Ray-J
Social climber
east L.A. vato...
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Sep 18, 2009 - 11:35pm PT
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What watusi said,
The first practical use "crash pad" I was aware of
Was a decaying mattress called "yabo's mattress"
Underneath Bachar cracker near C4.
Each year it got more rotten and hideous, along with
Varying build up of other ghetto related material.
In the mid 90's retailers were not so sure about
Crash pads, by the late 90's they were "on".
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 19, 2009 - 01:10am PT
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Don't Tortoise, dude.
Maybe.
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
A survey where 68% preferred this Fuca over others
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Sep 19, 2009 - 02:33am PT
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Watch out Pad People . . .
Don't get Tortoised!™
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Sep 19, 2009 - 02:36am PT
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Yarrr.
Ye've got me tortoised, JimLad.
Ya scurvy Dog.
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Neal Kaptain
Boulder climber
CA
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Sep 22, 2009 - 01:32am PT
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I was not the first to make sketch pads. John Sherman and others at Hueco Tanks were using them first. I'll send you John's email off-list if you would like.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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Sep 22, 2009 - 01:51am PT
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Hey Neal,
Good to see you here. How are things? Please send me an email or PM.
Curt
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Sep 22, 2009 - 08:05pm PT
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Neal K: I was not the first to make sketch pads. John Sherman and others at Hueco Tanks were using them first.
So much for my memories. Heh.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sep 22, 2009 - 08:13pm PT
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Crash pads were no doubt invented at Stony Point where initially we experimented with water bottles, Volkswagen Beetles and small horses as a means of breaking falls.
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fsck
climber
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lol boudlering is so gay and lame lol too bad mattress people can't climb sick 5.10a on trad gear like we can. amirite?
/circlejerk
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BruceAnderson
Social climber
Los Angeles currently St. Antonin, France
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I had one of those Jeff Johnson pads back in like 89 perhaps? Earliest ones I can remember that were made specifically for bouldering. It was maybe 2 feet square but it made such a difference...if you were lucky enough to land on it!
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